For the idea, not the announcement
We shape the idea inside your business into a story that reads like an argument rather than an advertisement, then pitch it where it fits.
We develop your story, write the feature to editorial standard, and manage the placement. You approve every word before anything goes live.
Fast Company covers innovation, design, sustainability, leadership and the future of work, and is known for its annual lists recognising innovative companies and people.
Its readers are creative and strategic professionals. A feature here frames you as someone doing something structurally different, not just successfully.
Best for: Innovative, design-led and future-of-work businesses.
Three different things happen at Fast Company and they are not interchangeable. Staff editorial is a writer or editor choosing your story: free, competitive, and decided by nobody outside that newsroom. The title also runs a paid executive membership community that gives accepted members a route to publish bylined pieces, which is application-based with criteria and pricing published at source and worth reading there rather than taking on trust. Sponsored content is advertising produced to the magazine's standard and labelled on the page. Its annual recognition lists run on their own published windows and entry rules. We work the earned route and pitch it properly, and we will name which of the paid products you are actually being offered when someone else sells you one.
Fast Company rewards an argument rather than an announcement. A workable angle usually starts with something you changed in how the business operates and the reasoning behind it: how you restructured a team, why you priced against the grain, what a design decision revealed about the people using the thing. The proof a reader expects is specific and unflattering in places, because the tension is what makes it publishable: what you tried, what you observed afterwards, what you would not repeat. It sits in the work, design, technology or leadership coverage rather than anywhere resembling company news. The test is whether someone outside your sector would repeat the idea to a colleague. If the piece only works as evidence that you are doing well, it is not ready.
Yes. It is a genuine article published on the outlet, written about you and your work — not an ad you design yourself.
Most placements take weeks rather than days. We give you a realistic timeline for Fast Company before we start, and never promise a date we cannot control.
You review and revise until it is right. Nothing publishes without your approval.